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Cindy Fradet
French, English
Cindy received her degree in tourism from the University of Boulogne sur Mer, and has been guiding throughout France since 2012
Eva Ruttger
German, French, English
Eva grew up in Bavaria, Germany, studied tourism in Paris, and worked in Courseulles-Sur-Mer before she guiding at Juno in '07.
Jip Meijer
English-speaking, Dutch
Jip is based in Holland but guides travellers in France, Belgium, Poland, and Germany too. He particularly enjoys the Canadian story
Salient Tours
Dutch, English, French
Meet Steve Douglas, founder of the Maple Leaf Legacy Project and his team, a group of multilingual specialised guides based in Ypres
Brigitte de Cuyper
French
Brigitte worked for 5 years for the “Somme 1916 Museum” in Albert. She lived in the UK for 26 years and brings passion and knowledge to the battlefields she grew up on.
Cory Powell
English, French Canadian
Cory has worked on The Battlefield Tours as a guide since 2017. His most notable tours include Passchendaele 100 & the Vimy 100 FS Indigenous Veterans tour.
Glenn Edmonds
English Canadian
Glenn Edmonds, based in Manitoba, has worked with us since 2003, escorting Canadian veterans and their families as a principal guide on many projects.
Joel Stoppels
English-speaking, Dutch
Joel started collecting artefacts in the Groningen region of the Netherlands when he was 12 years old - now he guides & lectures throughout the local area.
Samantha Cowan
English Canadian
Sam is the operations manager here at The Battlefield Tours. She works with group tours both large & small and books all special interest groups
Carl Ooghe
Dutch, English, French
Carl Ooghe is a full time tour leader based out of Lille, highly specialised in cycling tours, specifically in Flanders Fields (+ northern France).
Diane Piuk
Meeting a Great War veteran in the late 90s changed her life and reignited her love of history.
Hearing personal stories from these men brought an insight into their lives as they coped with trench
warfare and they brought history to life.
In 1999 this passion took Diane and her husband Vic to move to the heart of the hauntingly beautiful
Somme battlefields where they opened a B&B and began to conduct battlefield tours. Their location is
on the former 1916 front line which was attacked on 1 st July 1916. Her tours always include stories
from the veterans she knew and she stood with as they described on the ground what happened to
them during the Great War.
One particular fascination is the research of a soldier to find out his history of where he served and to
try to pinpoint his location in battle especially his last known location before becoming a casualty.
Family history is a special interest.
Diane’s tours take her mainly to the Somme, Artois region and Flanders in Belgium.
Ian Cowan
English Canadian
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Jon Haslock
English, French
Jon is from the UK, but today, he's based in the heart of the Somme, his tea shop The Old Blighty sits a mere 100 metres from Lochnagar Crater.


RECOMMENDED TOUR GUIDES
The right guide for your journey matters most. Explore with some of our favorite battlefield guides in the field, some of whom we've been working with for decades. You will also come across members of our full-time Canadian team in the guide profiles below.